Hi! The help thing is called MSHelp 2
No COM help, but I have 2 sources that _might_ help you to access the files (and possibly convert them): Visual Studio .NET Help Integration Kit 2.1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=37972 Only works if you have Visual Studio (Framework is not enough, so I couldn't try it) Also more information is here: http://www.help-guide.de/ (Help 2.0) However, it might help not, too ;-) What data exactly do you want get? The Source when you right-click in the Browser? Johannes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miguel de Icaza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 1:11 PM Subject: [Mono-list] Need help: writing a COM control. > Hello guys, > > I usually find myself traveling and without the desire to boot > VMware. The only reason to start up VMWare is to read the online > documentation for the .NET Framework. > > Ideally, we would have our own documentation, but we do not have it > yet. So what I want to do is pull all the data from the existing > Microsoft implementation, and dump it into HTML that I can later view > from Linux when am traveling. > > I found that they have a control that handles the `ms-help:' prefix > (indeed, the URL would work just fine under IE). But the API is an > internal API, so it is not easy to figure out what arguments to pass to > it. Even with this, I was able to write a simple C# program that could > load the index, and return a list of topics, but I was stopped there. > > Since the `ms-help:' happens to be some kind of handler that IE > uses, I wonder if it is possible to write a COM control that would allow > me to pull the stream of data that would be rendered by the ms-help: > control. > > Once this is done, I could safely write a little program to pull > all the data and copy it over to Linux to browse. I know its possible, > I just do not know enough COM to pull this out. > > Miguel. > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
